United Academics of Maryland-University of Maryland (UAM-UMD)

Federal government revokes visas from 7 people at UMD (April 17) Federal government revokes visas from 7 people at UMD topics: local, universities, visa revocations, University of Maryland College Park […]

‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal (April 10) https://therealnews.com/kill-these-cuts-before-they-kill-us-federally-funded-researchers-warn-doge-cuts-will-be-fatal topics: regional, AFSCME, research funding UMD SGA resolution aims to support […]

Great turnout today to Kill the Cuts, with workers of all stripes from NIH, UMD, Hopkins, GW, Georgetown, Howard, UMBC, and Montgomery College. Particular shoutout to organizer Nina Randazzo who […]

U.S. revokes visas of some international students at UMD, UMBC (April 9) topics: Maryland, University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USMAI, visa revocations, students/universities   ‘Approximately […]

Join your UMD students and colleagues Tuesday at 4:00 pm in Upper Senate Park in DC, where we’ll tell Congress: Kill the Cuts. UMD faculty and students will meet outside the turnstiles […]

Hi everyone! Your union president Karin Rosemblatt appeared on the podcast I Hate the News talking about our fight for collective bargaining. Listen here. Legislative Update Your phone calls, emails […]

We are posting today with an important update and urgent request. As you know, we have been fighting in Annapolis for collective bargaining legislation for all faculty and librarians in […]

Last month colleagues across the USM  published op-eds arguing for our right to collective bargaining! Dr. Shana Pearson Merkowitz, of the School of Public Policy at UMD, published “University faculty deserve […]

Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. […]

The University of Maryland’s AAUP chapter rebranded itself in October to become United Academics of Maryland – University of Maryland. The organization, formerly known as the American Association of University […]

We will not mince words: we are deeply concerned about what the re-election of Donald Trump means for the future of higher education, labor rights, reproductive rights, and the safety […]

Open Letter to President Darryll Pines: We, the undersigned, write to express our grave concern about recent University of Maryland’s policy changes regarding free speech. In the last year, the […]

Last month, my fellow teachers at the University of Maryland, College Park, began their fall classes with the usual concerns: learning students’ names, logging into the WiFi, searching for bartending […]

The Maryland General Assembly is considering a bill to give state university faculty the right to form a union. Currently, staff at the state’s colleges and universities are unionized, but […]

Louiqa Raschid and Luka Arsenjuk, professors at the University of Maryland, explain in The Baltimore Banner what University System of Maryland leadership gets wrong about collective bargaining for USM faculty and graduate workers.

Hannah Gaskill of the Baltimore Sun provides coverage of new bills in support of collective bargaining for state workers, including House Bill 493 which would extend collective bargaining rights to graduate […]

Read Rigby Phillips of the Graduate Labor Union’s Legislative Team in The Diamondback on why graduate assistants have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to a union.

On September 21st, UMD AAUP joined with UMD’s Graduate Labor Union and the campus Local 1072 of AFSCME in a rally ahead of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents meeting on September 22nd.

In recent weeks and months, multiple states have passed legislation targeting academic freedom and independence at public colleges and universities. States incuding Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, North Dakota and Texas […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed UMD AAUP and Fearless Student Employees in the wake of hearings on a collective bargaining bill that would dramatically reshape labor relations at the University System of Maryland campuses, Morgan State University, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.